"A Lady of Letters" and "Bed Among the Lentils" are monologues about two lonely characters in the late 20th Century. Miss Ruddock is an ordinary middle-aged woman who has an obsession to write letters of complaint so it landed her in trouble. Susan is the " heroine " in " Bed Among the Lentils", she is a vicar"s wife and an alcoholic. Susan lives in a loveless marriage and strongly disagrees with the "role" of the vicar"s wife; she lacks love and attention from her husband. Susan in dissatisfied with sex in her marriage "rare and desiccated...
characters then they want to tell but it is also a one-sided story, other characters might be completely different. Obviously Bennett has some disagreement with church, police and social services, his monologues clearly shows a critique about them. He uses simple but eye-catching words to give very strong statements, he knows how to describe thoughts of lonely and even mentally disturbed character. Bennett is brilliant and has very strong narrating skills, the tragic-comic "Talking Heads" are full of irony but it shows us how much isolation there was in late 80"s. Sadly there is even more nowadays.